The Young India

Ananth Venkatesh

I was in a condition of emotionless disquiet on hearing the news of Roebuck’s suicide. When I became acquainted with the events triggering his suicide, my thought immediately revolved around the Hindu/Indian notion of ‘Kali Yuga.’

Eminent cricket writer Peter Roebuck’s suicide in a South African hotel in the paradisiacal city of Cape Town has been a source of copious astonishment for the cricketing society in general, which includes present and historical cricketers as well as writers of the game. Roebuck, whose wordsmithery …

Ananth Venkatesh

It is good that Colombo was victorious in 2009 in its fight against the poison of the LTTE and that LTTE’s terror has ended. 
Ananth Venkatesh gives us a brief account of Tamil-Sinhalese conflict that has plagued Sri Lanka.

The inability of the Indian state to execute the convicted assassinators of Rajiv Gandhi, despite the repeated judicial green signals, is a perilous and worrisome indicator of the political irresoluteness that exists in the national government.

Rajiv was an ex-PM at night on …

Kartikey Sehgal

Foreigners are silly. They are not very smart. I don’t deny this assertion by certain Indians used to traveling the world villages. Instead, I accept that foreigners are silly.

And therein lies their charm and power. It takes a certain silliness to live life merrily. And to know life.

This ‘foreign silliness’, which comes across to Indians as ‘lack of intelligence’, is simply a case of delayed mental boredom.

They don’t know as much maths and science at a certain age as we …

Kartikey Sehgal

How the people of Mumbai (and India) are stagnant

When we are attacked and killed, we look for ways to humiliate ourselves. This Indian habit is seen through the media, particularly the newspapers. Hindustan Times carried out a series on potholes in Mumbai roads. They did not investigate the habit of terrorism in Indians. That is a difficult and a controversial topic. DNA invited arm-chair columnists to make up for their lack of investigation. They printed an article by Subramanian Swamy and then …

Kartikey Sehgal

Indians have a lot to learn from the Norway blasts and murders. Indians – that’s you, the middle-class to urban category; the rest of the Indians don’t have to think so much – they have to look for food and survive.

Norwegian police arrested 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing extremist who rocked Norway in twin attacks Saturday. Breivik is responsible for Friday’s bombing and youth camp massacre in Oslo, Norway. source

Such attacks will happen when society is closed for discussion. When …

Kartikey Sehgal

[The proposed series on Male Ego and Feminism has been postponed. Read on India’s first ‘slutwalk’, here]

DNA (Daily News and Analysis, a newspaper) has successfully deflected the entire blame of the Mumbai blasts onto one person. They have successfully indulged in the Indian habit of deflecting from issues and indulging in needless drama and theatrics.

No, the person who planted the bombs at bus-stops and bazaars may have been an Indian local (an Indian Mujahedeen Muslim), but what DNA’s self-flagellating subs …

Ananth Venkatesh

Any nationalistic Indian outlook will not desire the dilution of Indian connection to AP and Sikkim as Indian troops have sacrificed their lives and shed their blood to keep these two provinces with India.

China is a godless nation, with which India shares a colossal frontier. Ideally, China should never have been permitted to border India. The attachment of the Chinese border to the Indian border took place in the 1950s as a consequence of the grisly and lawless conquest of Tibet then …

Ananth Venkatesh

The author traces China’s fall to the state of intellectual and administrative disintegration that has now led to its confrontations with India.

• The commonplace Chinese citizens were enmeshed in a civil war for four years subsequent to the culmination of WW 2 in August 1945 after the Japanese surrender.
• Then, the civil strife in China had, as its participants, Communist militias pitted against the anti Communist (Nationalist) militias. Also, millions of the Chinese civilians, who were the members of either the Nationalist or

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Kartikey Sehgal

“kaam chal raha hai, main sapne nahin bata raha hoon”

Narendra Modi, the man with a 12.8 percent agricultural growth in the ‘non-agricultural’ state of Gujarat, who is also the Chief Minister of the state, in a well-delivered speech, has implied the importance to solving teachers’ woes in India and ensuring maximum respect and salary for them in the coming years. (The Speech)

His is an inspiring and a visionary move that aims to being back to the nation Her glory …

Reema Prasanna

Hindi Cinema and Indian Politics are successful businesses that are, very wrongly, labelled as democratic. They are a mechanism for controlling the ‘majority’.

The majority of India are very simple people, characterised by a basic level of education and understood as having a basic understanding of life. Long term ‘intelligent’ choices are not inclusive to their everyday life.

This majority is presumably—at least legally—poor. Daily rations at throw-away prices; Rs. 2 per kilo. The majority buys this rice and comes back home with …